News - National
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05-Mar-2010
Good Shepherd Mission & Justice and the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans are launching a Fairtrade Easter Chocolate campaign to stop child trafficking into West African cocoa plantations.
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03-Mar-2010
Christian schools are concerned that a South Australian board decision to stop the teaching of creationism as part of science lessons will trigger similar action nationwide.
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02-Mar-2010
Caritas Australia is raising funds and awareness through its 2010 Project Compassion to combat indigenous poverty.
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02-Mar-2010
The Australian Catholic Church has paid tribute to Rosemary Goldie, who died on the weekend aged 94. She was the first woman to hold an official post of authority in the Roman Curia.
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05-Mar-2010
The Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart has installed the new National Executive of the Catholic Women's League Australia (CWLA) in Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.
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03-Mar-2010
The Catholic Diocese of Sale plans to move its administrative headquarters from Sale to Warragul, possibly within a year, to consolidate staff in the one office closer to the demographic centre of the diocese.
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05-Mar-2010
Bathurst's Saint Vincent's private hospital may remain open as a day surgery facility for up to a year after the closure of the hospital. Catholic Healthcare announced the news following discussions with medical staff.
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04-Mar-2010
Catholic Healthcare has confirmed that Bathurst's private St Vincent's hospital is to close on June 1. There are plans to eventually convert it into an aged care service.
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04-Mar-2010
More than 2,000 people will gather in St Patrick's Cathedral precinct this evening for the installation of new bishop, Anthony Fisher OP.
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02-Mar-2010
Camden priest Father Mark De Battista, who has been given four years' leave to study in Rome, is hoping to be a part of Mary MacKillop's canonisation ceremony.
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01-Mar-2010
Protesters have vowed to stop the "sacrilegious gay masses" at St Joseph's church in inner-Sydney Newtown, saying the parish's mass undermines Catholic teaching on "human love and the family".
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01-Mar-2010
Between four and six men will be ordained to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Sydney in June, the largest number since 1988. The rise is being partly attributed to the influence of World Youth day 2008.
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04-Mar-2010
Less than a quarter of Queensland Catholic Catholic schools will potentially be affected by staff withdrawing from activities outside normal working hours next week.
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03-Mar-2010
Queensland Catholic school teachers are threatening to withdraw from activities outside normal working hours for a week from Monday over a pay claim.
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News - International
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05-Mar-2010
Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth has declared in a book of memoirs that some Vatican clergy were members of "Satanic sects". But a second demonologist questioned the source of Fr Amorth's information.
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01-Mar-2010
St Vincent de Paul CEO John Falzon says the federal government is acting in an "exclusionary and divisive" manner over its forced income management and Racial Discrimination Act plans.
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01-Mar-2010
Catholic Health Australia says the government should make aged care "an entitlement available to every person who needs it" and replace the Howard era formula with a Medicare-style entitlement.
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03-Mar-2010
An American woman has sparked a storm by making a YouTube video and tweeting live the details of her abortion, after taking the RU-486 drug while four weeks pregnant.
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02-Mar-2010
A directive by American bishops that Catholic health facilities must provide food and water even to irreversibly vegetative patients is colliding with patients' wishes.
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05-Mar-2010
Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has joined clergy abuse victims and others in condmening a bishop's appeal that parishioners pay $90,000 a year between them for 20 years towards child abuse compensation bills.
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05-Mar-2010
Britain society suffers from a lack of trust and neighbourliness, and people are "alienated by a selfish society", said the Church.
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04-Mar-2010
The House of Lords has voted to amend Britain's Equality Bill to allow, but not compel, religious organisations to host same sex couples holding civil partnership ceremonies inside churches.
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03-Mar-2010
The Conference of French Bishops has warned that paid telephone confession service called "The Line of the Lord" has no approval from the Church.
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02-Mar-2010
The Church in Netherlands will investigate claims that pupils at a monastery school in the country's east were sexually abused by priests in the 1960s.
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04-Mar-2010
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has called for a complete ban on condom ads in the country, saying it desensitises the country's youth and weakens their "moral fibre".
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04-Mar-2010
Brisbane archdiocese's Catholic Justice and Peace Commission wants a Australia to take a stronger stance on human rights violations in Sri Lanka.
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02-Mar-2010
Two Christian men have been sentenced to life imprisonment in Pakistan under the country's blasphemy laws, over charges their lawyers and others insist were trumped up.
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03-Mar-2010
Caritas in Chilehas mobilised its vast network on the ground to deliver help to worst affected areas of Saturday's massive earthquake despite emergency reponse teams being under "incredible stress".
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01-Mar-2010
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Australian Government was standing by to help victims of Chile's earthquake, as Caritas Australia said aid teams are being sent to to assist those already active on the ground.
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01-Mar-2010
Pope Benedict said his prayers were with the population of Chile and victims of its massive earthquake, for relief and courage.
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Regulars
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05-Mar-2010
Experts on Catholic liturgy have been waiting for the “real” agenda of Pope Benedict XVI to emerge from beneath a façade of patience. But the pope’s own liturgist insists that the patient façade is actually the agenda.
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04-Mar-2010
Praying on the run is rarely part of Rebecca Crouch's spiritual repertoire. She is looking forward to helping others "be convinced we need prayer time" during her session at the Pray 2010 event in Brisbane.
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03-Mar-2010
Rosemary Goldie was one of the first women appointed an auditor at the Second Vatican Council. She will be remembered as a great champion of the Catholic laity, writes Michael Costigan.
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02-Mar-2010
The Internet is now the biggest confession booth on the planet. The church says it can do better and is launching a new campaign to get sinners back into the booth.
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01-Mar-2010
Columban Father Paul Finlayson is committed to opposing mining in the part of the Philippines where he lives and works, for the good of the environment and the people he serves.
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05-Mar-2010
The Caritas website has a broad range of information on Project Compassion, its major annual fundraising and education campaign. There are also details of ongoing work in Haiti, and now in Chile.
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04-Mar-2010
Bishop Anthony Fisher will be installed as the third Bishop of Parramatta tonight in a Mass that starts at 7.30pm. The mass will be streamed live through the Catholic social networking site www.xt3.com.
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03-Mar-2010
The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia is dedicated to serving people who suffer from injustices related to poverty, sickness or lack of education. Their inspiration is drawn from Catherine McAuley, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in Ireland in 1831.
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02-Mar-2010
Eureka Street has a video interview with the outspoken American Benedcitne nun, Joan Chittister. As well as advocating inter-religious dialogue, Chittister is an articulate and fearless feminist voice in the Catholic Church.
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01-Mar-2010
Heart for the Homeless is an Australian not-for-profit organisation focussed on empowering industries to be active in reducing poverty. Today it launches it website, which allows people to volunteer and donate.
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03-Mar-2010
This is an action-thriller film with a twisty and complicated plot. Charlie Wax (John Travolta) plays an unorthodox CIA agent who has to stop terrorists assassinating the US Secretary of State, on her way to a summit in Paris.
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02-Mar-2010
This film was winner of the Catholic Jury’s SIGNIS award at the Venice Film Festival in 2008. It may be another film about Iraq, but it is one of the most critical of these films.
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01-Mar-2010
Shutter Island almost defies description. This deeply disorienting, edge of the seat tale is ‘masterly’, both in its direction and performances.
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05-Mar-2010
Around the world, the Catholic Church is rocked by news of sex abuse scandals. The vow of celibacy is often blamed, but it is more that. Background Briefing looks at the culture the Church encourages in priests.
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04-Mar-2010
How can 90 kilometres of hard slog through Victoria's gold-mining territory become a holy experience? Where does the tradition of making a spiritual journey lie? Encounter joins a pilgrimage between Ballarat and Bendigo.
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05-Mar-2010
Meditation can be described in this way: Imagine you and a loved one on the couch, each sitting quietly, not talking, just being in each other’s presence. Not thinking, simply loving. You don’t need to talk.
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04-Mar-2010
The empowerment women seek is all in the mind. It's in the decisions they make. It is forfeited in the careless choices they take and it is restored when they decide to stop playing the victim.
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04-Mar-2010
The past two years have seen a litany of health reviews. Nobody can accuse the government of not consulting. Now it's time for action, writes Martin Laverty, head of Catholic Health.
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02-Mar-2010
Images of a passive Jesus do not encourage red-blooded males to go to Church. But where can men find an authentic model of male Christianity?
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01-Mar-2010
Journalists are not a particularly saintly crowd. Yet a Spanish journalist has just had a date set for his beatification.
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